SDC 209 Repeat yourself

This is my third week as a Guest Designer for Stampotique Originals

I have a huge fondness for the stamps and the Company as it was one of the first Design Teams that I was on! I thank Carol and Jim for allowing me to showcase their beautiful stamps!

Sam Read is our hostess this week.  Sam Read is our hostess this week. Ha ha!  She likes to be repeated:

I recently read that the human eye likes things that are repeated, so for this weeks challenge I'm inviting you to use some sort of repetition on your creations. A stamp stamped more than once or even your own doodling, it's up to you but most importantly have fun!
So with that, I created this fun background using my Dylusions Paints and Baby Wipes. THEN I used the following stamps, repeating the patterns for two of the three

Mr. Stripes

Altered Laugh

Honeycomb Background

Be sure to link your creations up HERE on the Blog

Thanks for looking~

--Vicki``

Stampotique Wednesday Challenges!

Jackie Payne is our hostess this week and her challenge is:

We all love our animals, incorporate an animal into your project.

For my card, I coloured up Little Hoo Hoo with my Touch Twin Markers

I made the Balloons with my one inch circle punch, sponging the edges for dimension.

Then I added in Batty as I thought I could use an extra mammal

Be sure to link up your challenge creations HERE

Happy Stamping

--Vicki~~

SDC207 It's a Photo Bomb!

I'm Very excited to be Joining Stampotique Originals as their August Guest Designer~

I've always been very fond of Carole and Jim and their wonderful array of Stamps~

Claudine Criner is our hostess this week: We all know those crazy animals or people who make funny faces behind or in front of us while we are taking a photo or those who like to take photos of themselves. Well this challenge is all about that. I want to see those funny photo bomb projects or your best selfie.

For my Card I used the Following Stamps

Cowardly Lion

Giant Shroom

SCHU

Happy Birthday to You

The Lion was coloured with Prism Pencils

The Shroom and Schu coloured with Copic Markers

Background Sponged in with SU Ink

Die Cut from Impression Obsession

Hope you will play along in the challenge!

You can link your projects up HERE

Will be back soon to share another Stampotique Project with you~

--Vicki~~

Stampotique New Release Blog Hop!

 Thank you for sticking with us the last few days, hope you have been enjoying a sneak peek at all the new stamps being released. If you've been hoppin' you're now at the last stop on the hop! Stop on hop!!! lol.......hope you've enjoyed all the creations from the AMAZING Design Team. I'm blessed to be able to play with some of the new rubber and join the team in the hop!

Today is our last day of the hop and the images you have been seeing the last few days are now available over on the Stampotique website.

For our last little surprise, all of those who have hopped with us this week and today will be eligible for our random drawing of a winner to get some new release goodies.  We will choose our winner next week before our next challenge.


For my card, I couldn't resist using  Rainy Day, by our very own DT Member Maria Sabina Raita. Can you say SUPER Talented. I have been a fan of her gorgeous creations and now here she is illustrating for Stampotique! How very cool is that?!  I am always inspired by her elegant style and tried to emulate that in my creation. I coloured Rainy Day with my Touch Markers. Here's a little colour map for your perusal.

To achieve this subtle look, I chose the lightest of colours and after applying a small amount of ink, used my colourless blender to lift out and blend a great deal of the colour. How fun is THAT?

I ran out of room on the front after adding the pretty flower, so I decorated the interior of the card by lightly stamping rainy day, along with "the weather is changing" sentiment. The DP is an older one, Kyoshi by Basic Grey. If you are starting here, you can follow these links to complete the hop!

Sam Read

Nellie van Leeuwen

Gez Butterworth

Polly Bennett

France Papillon

Maria Sabina Raita

Roc Nicholas

Kim Howard

Jennifer Cochran

Jo Capper-Sandon

Claire Boelema

Kaz Boughton

Kate Crane

Sarinda Jones

Carol Fox

Magda Polakow

Astrid Stulemeijer

Libby Hickson

Jane Wetzel

Valerie Wilson

Vicki Garrett

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Hoppin' with Stampotique Originals~

I am SO excited to be participating in this fun blog hop, along with the Stampotique Design Team to debut some new and fabulous images. If you've been hopping already, you've probably come from the very talented Polly's blog. Actually, you haven't, you've come from Magda's Blog and what a gorgeous project she's bestowed upon us! I had a feeling i'd messed up the order a touch, but well, I like to stir things up a little from time to time!!!   I have been a fan of Daniel Torrente 4-EVER. In fact, it was his sweet creatures that drew me to the Stampotique Booth at CHA several years ago and to Carol and Jim, the amazing owners of the company. For you i'm debuting Tangled Enthusiasm and stringed lights. They will be available in the Stampotique store VERY soon! I also used this fun Jingle Bells sentiment.

I coloured Mr. Tangled with my Touch Markers and have included a colour map for your perusal!

The little dimensional lights are made with Viva Decor Pearl Pens.......Kewl eh?

This is the end of the hop, but if you're just arriving, the hop starts at one of my fave Stampotique Stampers, Nellie's Blog

Happy Stamping!

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CPS 276

Hey There! Hope you're all having a great week! This is the last week that Stampotique is Sponsoring the CPS challenges in July, so I thought I'd squeak in just one more image that is perfect for making clean and simple cards! This 3 girls stamp has the sentiment on the image itself, which is perfect!

In order to add a touch more texture to the card, I stamped this tiny starfish tone on tone onto the card base. The Magic Mesh (a VERY old embellishment!) adds to the beach theme I think and these ancient metal embellies from SU complete the look.

For Ink, I used Stephanie Barnard for Colorbox (Chocolate). I LOVE the depth of colour that I achieve with my Colorbox Inks and have pretty much abandoned my former fave ink for the Colorbox line!

Be sure to head on over to the CPS blog to see the sketch and play along with the challenge

Happy Stamping!

SDC56 Twins!!

Today's challenge is to use a stamp twice on your creation. I tried my hand at a little bit of techniquey stamping again. I am really not much of a technique stamper, as I've said before, but I get so totally inspired by the Stampotique Designers amazing creations that I decide to give it a whirl.

I used the Flower Stamp Twice to make a fun flower for this great tag!

Stamps used in my creation

Carol's  Flower large

Fabulous

Mesh Background

Splatter Blob

Other Supplies

Shipping Tag

DP -Lily Bee Designs

Seam Binding

Tim Holtz Distress Stains and Distress Ink

Colorbox by Stephanie Barnard

Viva Pearl Pen-Gold

Corduroy Button.

Be sure to use your stampotique stamps to create a "twin" card and enter for a chance to win a $30.00 Gift Certificate!

Happy  Stamping!

SDC52 Oodles of Doodles!

This week over at the Stampotique Designers Challenge, the very talented KAZ has challenged us to use doodles on our creation. If you've been following, you know that I've been working on an Art Journalling Class. The structured lessons are LONG over, but I'm slowly plugging away at the lessons bit by bit!!!! I relied on my letter love inspiration to create this journalling page.

I had to add my Favourite Chubby Stampotique Cherubs to my spring creations and I thought the Swirl Stalks would work perfectly with this page. I   coloured Fleur Babies 2 and 3 with my touch markers~

Here's my colour map

Hope you'll head over to the Stampotique Designer's challenge blog and play along

Background is done with Pan Pastels. Highlights with Sakura Gel Pen....Middles of doodle flowers with Viva Decor Pearl Pen-yep it yakked on my page a bit.......ugh, but I guess that's art!

And if you're just stopping by today, leave a comment on my previous post to win some Blog Candy!

Happy Stamping!

Stampotique Designer Challenge-Wearable Art

This week our challenge was to create some"wearable" art....... I searched around the house to find something "wear worthy" and found this little disc that i must have picked up at one place or another along my journeys!

It was quite easy to make, and although it's a little rough looking, I think I could get better at this with some practice

I basically stamped Jo's Floral Flutter image, available from Stampotique onto white paper, I coloured with my Touch Markers. I then spooned some UTEE into the well of the trinket and melted it from underneath. I think I may have overheated it a bit, but ahhhh well, live and learn. I really should attempt it again

Anyhow, if you'd like to play along, follow the link on my sidebar to the Stampotique Designers Challenge for all the details. You can win Rubber!!! Fabulous Rubbery Goodness from Stampotique Originals!

Happy Stamping!

Stampotique Designer's Challenge 49-Purple Haze!

Nellie is our hostess this challenge and she thought it would be fun to give you a color challenge this time. 

Here is what she said about her challenge:

"And of course I picked a color combination that I really love to work with:pink, purple and black. It’s as simple as that! So go get your Stampotique stamps out and have fun with this challenge. As always you can win a $30 dollar gift certificate for your choice of Stampotique stamps."

Sorry, i'm a day late posting...........been tied up with Work Work........ahhh the joys of making a living, but someone's got to do it!!!!

My card is relatively simple, but pretty I think. I used my awesome Framelits from Sizzix to create this fun round card. I stamped the sentiment  onto Authentique Splendid Paper and added some flowers from Prima. Pretty Plain and simple, but I needed simple this week and well, it's not my best work, but I kind of like it!!!!

Hope you'll visit the Designer Challenge to see all the great DT creations and link up your project!!!!

Happy Stamping!

Pile it on with Stampotique

Good Morning~ Or Good Middle of the Night, if you're up reading this late......... I KNOW it's late, 'cause I'm posting late! Have had a pretty nasty head cold for over a week now. It's making me REALLY tired, but when I lay my head down, it seems to congest me more and then I can't sleep! Bla bla bla........bet you din't come here to hear me whine about my health. Hmmmmmmmm did you come to hear about my AMAZING oven adventure earlier this evening?

If you ready yesterday's post, you'll know that it's my Mother's Birthday tomorrow....if you didn't, well, It's my Mother's Birthday tomorrow. So, being the sweet, kind and loving Daughter that I am at ALL times (although she might slightly disagree with that, as in the last couple of days, my personality has been a little godzilla "ish". I'm sure to match the skin between my nose and upper lip, which has not been very happy with all the paper activity going on there.........so much for the "soft" kind of kleenex, it doesn't work if you have to blow your nose every two minutes...........anyhooooooooooo)

So, I'm baking her Birthday Cake earlier tonight

Oh yeah, skip back to earlier earlier......

since she doesn't have an Oven right now (yes that's another story and if I get on to that one, we could end up in Marakesh before I get my story spit out) she was doing some Garlic bread in mine. My Auntie and Uncle are here for her Birthday, so I was showing her some of the pictures from the trip. Mom, getting caught up in revelling in her repelling photos, forgot the bread was in the oven and burnt it boot black.

Seems that the theme was recurring..... on to 9 o'clockish and I'm baking the cakes.......two cakes in one big pan. Been there, done that. I KNOW this pan fits two cake mixes. Unfortunately the two white cakes were not identical. One was a French Vanilla and the other plain old white. For some reason the cake rose like the second coming of Christ and ended up pouring out all over the oven AND the elements. 

As I'm sitting at the computer or stamping (don't quite recall) I smell burning. I'm thinking "wow, mom really hung a number on the garlic bread".........but it's getting stinkier in here and then comes the smoke......yep,  stinky! So I opened the oven door and LO and Behold, the Cake batter that has escaped the pan is on fire.....nice! Got that mess all under control, finished baking the cake, which kind of stuck to the pan, so rather than risk getting the buttercream (which I had intended to make from scratch) all crummy, it's going to be Loblaws or Costco cake.......that's enough cake baking for me. Wish me luck, i'm doing stamped sugar cookies for Valentines Day!

So, Stampotique Originals is Sponsoring the Pile it on Challenge this week. The Theme is Heartfelt Thanks, but to learn all about it, I'll thank you to head over to the blog to get the scoop, 'cause frankly, I was firefighting tonight and didn't get all the deets from our DT Coordinator before she headed off to bed!

I can tell you though the latest Stampotique Images are NOW AVAILABLE on the BLOG!!!!

OMGOSH!!!! They are all Fabby, but I am Totally Head over Heels silly for Janet Kliens' Wunderland Characters!!!

These guys are called the TWEEDLES! I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
LOVE

the Tweedles!!! I was calling them the Fat Boyz....Oh they are SCRUMPTIOUS

Nah, they are SCRUMPDILLYUMPTIOUS!

I coloured the cheery Chubbies with my Touch Twin Markers

Here's my colour map!

Other Stamps included

Scalloped Lace Border by a Brand New Artist, Roc Nicolas

and the Thank You from Weasel with thank you on the side

and of course the Spiraling out of control background

Other than that, I used some Kraft Cardstock, dimensionals and my handy dandy Sakura Gel Pen

Hope you all have an amazing day.......... I'm off to sleep now and to ponder whether we'll have Chocolate or White cake tomorrow !

Happy Stamping!

Stampotique Designers Challenge 48- CASE your Favourite Stampotique Designer

 C.A.S.E.

COPY and STEAL EVERYTHING

Our Hostess for this week Kim, is challenging you to CASE your favourite Stampotique Designer. Sooo what do you need to do? Choose a card made by one of the fabby Design Team members. You can follow the links on the sidebar to find them, or head over to the Stampotique Designers Challenge Blog to see what they've created for the challenge!!! There are so many talented Designers on this team, that it is really difficult to pick a favourite. What I will say is that EVERY time I visit Maria's Blog, I am overwhelmed by the beauty and elegance of her creations. Her use of soft muted tones and layers give her art such a vintage and romantic feel. I chose to CASE this card: 

You can find her creation HERE

For my own twist on the card, I added some vintage lace, a different sentiment and a metal brad at the top of the tags. 

Supplies

Stamps: Thinking of you and Happy rat, dejected cat

Paper by K&CO

Spellbinders Circle Die  and Cheery Lynn Tropical Flourish Die

Touch Twin Markers by Shinhan Arts

Pearls & Brads by Stampin' Up!

Looking forward to seeing your Stampotique Creation

P.S............some scoop! There are some new images coming, so it would be the perfect time to play and wind some Stamping Bucks~

Happy Stamping~!

Break out your Party Dress and Bring in the New Year!

I hope that you enjoyed a Happy Holiday with your friends and family! I've been a bit of a slacker as far as stamping goes for the last couple of weeks, but this week I enjoyed stamping for fun and playing in some of the challenges over at Splitcoaststampers. Today the challenge was to Break out the Party Dress.

Janet Klien's Pretty Party Dress is the perfect image for paper piecing. I stamped the image on the pretty paper from Splendid collection by Authentique. Don't you love the coordinating papers? It makes designing cards with multiple designer paper so easy! I cut a tiny tag from my Tim Holtz die and added a diction cardstock sticker, also from Authentique. Scalloped punches add a little punch for a border and some foliage from a Sizzix Sizzlit adds a little more dimension.

Also, I hadn't got around to posting my challenge card from last wednesday (yep, I've been a stamipin' slug!) so here goes

If you'd like to participate in the challenge, here's the scoop!

The challenge is to create a card that reflects your wishes for 2012.........I can sum it up easily

HAPPY

I want to be Happy............. I intend to make sure that I remain Happy throughout the year. If I find myself UNHAPPY, I will do something behaviourally or cognitively to get back to HAPPY. That's it in a nutshell. I am going to be the captain of my own ship this year....not sure of the destination, but I do know that it is going to be a positively pleasurable trip. I may get off course, but will apply my self navigational skills to get  back on track. Perhaps I'll take the road less traveled and leap over the puddles and potholes that serve to slow me down, but I know that 2012 is my year and I will be one Happy Dragon! The Year 2012 is the Year of the Dragon and I just happen to be one of those fearless creatures! It's my time to shine!

Hope all your wishes come true in 2012

If you're donning your favourite Party dress to ring in the New Year, enjoy a fun and safe evening.

Love and Hugs,

SDC43 It's a non traditional Christmas

Before you know it, Christmas will be upon us! How many of you have started your Christmas cards?  I'm curious, do you make ALL of your Christmas cards, none of them or a bit of both? 

This week  i'm the Hostess and I'm challenging the team to make a non traditional Christmas card. The main rule is 

NO RED OR GREEN! 

I can't wait to see all of the great ideas!

Pull out your Stampotique Stamps as this is a Stampotique only week! 

Play along with this week's challenge for your chance to win a $30 Stampotique Gift Certificate, be sure to link in your entries by 5 p.m. EST on 12/13/11 by using the InLinkz on the Stampotique Designer Challenge Blog . Please no back linking to previous posts and only one entry per person.

For my card, I started out with this pretty paper from the Let it Snow Stack from Dovercraft. I sponged all the edges with Tim Holtz Corduroy distress ink. Then I stamped this fun Postcard Stamp. I knew that I wanted to use it as a background. I found this gorgeous Brown and Gold Ribbon at Michaels last week. I think I'm going to have to go back for some more, it's so pretty. 

So I had all those elements complete and I had to think about what I would use for my main image. .. I perused my wonderful cache of stamps and thought this Happy Holiday's stamp would work perfectly.........now what about colouring it?  I didn't want to add much colour, as I really liked the neutral theme I had going on here. I am a huge fan of my Teammate Maria's neutral designs and I followed her theme to a degree to create my card, although it's much darker. So I just decided to add some shading to the main image. I did this by "smooshing" some Brushed Corduroy ink onto a palette. Picking up the colour with my water brush, I added layers of colour until I achieved the result that I wanted. I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out and it looks much "sparklier" in real life!

Happy Stamping!

It's an all new hop at Stampotique!

Announcing new images and new artists are always exciting here at Stampotique Originals and so we are thrilled to announce our newest artist, Kira Nichols.  Kira has designed some very unique monsters and kitties for her first line of stamps and our design team has had the opportunity to play with the stamps before they are released to the public.  Now if you've been Hopping already, you've arrived from the very talented Nellie's Blog!

I totally fell in LOVE with this sweet Nerd Kitty image. How cute is she? or is it a he? Not really sure, but I know for sure it's adorable!!! I coloured  Nerd Kitty in Prism Pencils and Teamed the image up with Graphic 45 Paper for a bit of a vintage look. This is also my card for the Stampotique Designer's Challenge currently going on at our Blog

And what about THIS GUY????? hehe............he made me giggle. This is Key Keeper. WAY cute too, as are all Kira's images! I was thrilled to be asked to be a Guest Designer for the Splitcoaststampers colour challenge this month and this is my CC card for this week

Again, I used my Prism Pencil for this image, with some sponging on the inside of the Nestie Template. I like the way this fun layout developed. I also used Sizzix Framelit Pennants by Stephanie Barnard to create the triangles. The Cardstock and Brads are from Stampin' Up!

Want a chance to win some of Kira's new images?  Hop along with our designers as well as our special guest, leaving comments along the way, for your chance to win some of Kira's new images.  We will randomly draw a winner from one of the blogs and announce the winner with our next challenge.

Your next stop is the Sweet, Lovely and Super Talented Willy........the queen of Beautiful Backgrounds.....oh I can't wait to see what she has for us!

Make sure to leave comments along the way and a randomly chosen commenter will win some of these new stamps.

Below is a complete list in case you go off the beaten path and need some redirection.

Kira Nichols

Kaz Boughton

Jane Wetzel

Gez Butterworth

Valerie Wilson

Maria Sabina Raita

Lisa Somerville

Jo Capper-Sandon

Kim Howard<----you are here

Nellie van Leeuwen

Vicki Garrett

Willy Anderson

Kate Crane

Monique Verbeek

Joanne Wardle

I couldn't resist adding a couple of pictures from Jonathon's Football game on Saturday. His Team won the KASSAA AA Championship Game and will be chasing the Eastern Ontario Title this Wednesday......please send some positive thoughts our way! I'd love to see the Boys advance!

Stampotique Designers Challenge 41- There's POISON in it!

SDC41: Altered Poison Bottle

Maria is our Hostess this week issuing a new challenge here at Stampotique Designer's Challenge:

"I have a new fun and creative challenge for you all this week.  Are you ready for Halloween?  Well, guess what?  My challenge for you today is an: Altered poison bottle.  I have a passion for sweet/spooky bottles and I would love to see your creations using Stampotique stamps.  

WARNING:  Don't Drink, that's Poison!  Happy Halloween Stampotique-creatures!


I had so much fun creating a tag for the last challenge that I decided to continue with that theme, adding this tiny Tim Holtz bottle. I used the images from Halloween Cube 2 coupled with this Fang you Very Much sentiment. To create my background, I embossed the Spider Web Image with white embossing powder. I then took some Tim Holtz Broken China Distress Stain and went over the whole tag, with the exception of the images, which I coloured in with my Touch Twin Markers. The colours I used for the pumpkins: Y35. YR23. R14 amd BR96. I coloured the Skeleton Head with GY163 and Y169. I then took sponges and sponged Brushed Corduroy and  Crushed Olive to the bottom and the edges of the Tag and Dusty Concord to create a twilight sky. I filled the little bottle with Hand Sanitizer added some rhinestones for bling and attached some curtain pull to turn it into a wee key chain. I'm actually Pleased with my project as this is far from my usual style! I guess that's why they call it a challenge!!! Anyway, hope you'll play along. One lucky player will win a gift certificate for 30 bucks to Stampotique!  Please check out the challenge blog for the rules and deets!!!!

Happy Stamping!

Stampotique Designers Challenge!

It’s “TAGTIME” this week.

Nellie is our hostess for the current challenge and here is what she says about her challenge theme:

I love to work on a tag. For me it feels like it somehow invites you to think and work in another way than when you’re making cards. So I challenge you to make a tag or some project in which you use a tag. Any size, any color as long as there’s at least one tag involved in your artwork.

I used a real king size tag for this challenge. It’s 8,5 inch long and almost 4,5 inch wide. Kate Crane’s DVD “Right from a blank page” inspired me when making the background of my tag.

You can use stamps from any company for this challenge. But even better, grab your Stampotique stamps and get stamping!

For my Tag, I started off with some K&Co Paper and cut it to 3.5 " x 5.5". I then sprayed over the rag with Shimmer Mist ( you can actually see that if you click on the image) I sponged the edges with Chocolate Brown Ink. I stamped the Tulip image onto the stamp with Colorbox Chocolate by Stephanie Barnard along with the WISH sentiment. I stamped the image again onto white, coloured with my Touch Twin Markers, cut out the dog and flower and mounted them on foam tape. I created the Wire Flower on my own, adding that and a Prima Flower with a half pearl centre. Lastly I threaded some seam binding through punched hole as my tag topper. I quite like the way it turned out.

Be sure to link your creations to the Stampotique Challenge Blog and maybe you'll be the random winner of 30.00 worth of free stamps!

Happy Stamping